James Holmes

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• Maintaining Sessions Across Multiple ColdFusion CFHttp Requests

  Posted on Jul 2, 2008 at 8:35 AM

  Ben, have you considered putting this up at riaforge?... read more »

• Maintaining Sessions Across Multiple ColdFusion CFHttp Requests

  Posted on Feb 18, 2008 at 10:33 PM

  Hi Ben. One thing to note - this code chokes when a single cookie is set by the server (in which case, it comes back as a single string rather than a struct). A quick check to see what type of data is in the Set-Cookie item will fix this.... read more »

• Randomly Selected vs. Evenly Distributed

  Posted on Jul 20, 2007 at 7:13 AM

  Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpDckbqhpW8... read more »

• Randomly Selected vs. Evenly Distributed

  Posted on Jul 20, 2007 at 1:06 AM

  "In fact, there are lines of thought that suggest that randomness is a myth in any scenario, computed or not. i.e. everything is caused by something, so there's nothing that's truly random - only things that appear to be random, because we cannot readily discern the cause." Maybe, until you look cl... read more »

• Danish Scientists Showed That Spot Reducing Works!

  Posted on Apr 15, 2007 at 7:37 PM

  I've suspected for ages that spot reduction really did work, but it's nice to see it scientifically demonstrated.... read more »

• Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer On ColdFusion

  Posted on Jan 15, 2007 at 1:50 AM

  Yeah but is his name Steve or Gorak?... read more »

• Flex Renamer - Most Awesome Bulk File / Folder Regular Expression Renamer Ever

  Posted on Jan 7, 2007 at 12:30 AM

  LOL - here I was thinking someone had written a file renamer in Flex :-)... read more »

• How Do You People Deal With Holidays?

  Posted on Dec 23, 2006 at 7:14 PM

  Well, ymmv, but when you are with the right person, things will just work - really. Just about every problem people have in relationships stems from the expectations people bring to them; this is "supposed to happen" and that "should be this way" etc. As for the people feeling disappointed in you ... read more »

• ColdFusion Regular Expressions Match New Line Using "."

  Posted on Nov 29, 2006 at 1:28 AM

  Yep, this has always been the case. From "Ben Forta's Advanced CFMX Application Development" (3rd ed.); "It's important to understand that in ColdFusion MX, the dot character always matches newlines, which is not always the case with Perl."... read more »

• ColdFusion Application.cfc OnRequestStart Returns False To Kill Page Load

  Posted on Oct 18, 2006 at 3:44 AM

  The docs provide an example of this use; preventing access between certain maintenance hours: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000700.htm It could also be used to deny access for certain IPs etc. In other words it's like a cfabort without the cfabort.... read more »